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WELLS
District names new director of athletics
Wells-Ogunquit CSD Superintendent James Daly accredited a committee’s unanimous advice to nominate Patrick Moody to function the district’s subsequent athletic director for grades 6-12. The interview committee of 9 representatives consisted of members of the WOCSD administration, teaching employees, lecturers, dad and mom, and college students.
Moody is a 1983 graduate of Wells Excessive Faculty, the place he performed varsity basketball and likewise served as a volunteer with the WHS ladies’ basketball program for seven years.
Moody has been in public training for 30 years – as a highschool math trainer for 5 years at Gorham Excessive Faculty and 25 years at Kennebunk Excessive Faculty. Throughout that point Moody additionally served on a number of committees, together with the New England Affiliation of Faculties and Faculties Accreditation, scholarship and ebook award committees, and different faculty help committees.  He has been the recipient of the Amos McCallum Award and the Spencer Trask Award, honoring his excellent contributions to athletics and his dedication to training.
All through his profession in training, Moody has demonstrated a dedication to student-athletes. He has teaching expertise in varied athletic applications the span from center faculty to the faculty degree.

ELLSWORTH & PORTLAND
Theater fund seeks grant proposals
The Maine Neighborhood Basis’s Maine Theater Fund is accepting grant proposals from native, regional and statewide nonprofit theaters or theater teams in Maine.
Funds might be awarded for programmatic, capacity-building, working and capital help. Awards usually are between $2,500 and $5,000, although bigger awards could also be thought-about.
The deadline for grant functions is Sept. 15. An internet utility, tips and an inventory of latest grants can be found at mainecf.org.
For extra particulars, name MaineCF Senior Program Officer Leslie Goode at 412-2002 or e-mail [email protected]

HOUSTON, TEXAS
Maine girl topped in pageant
Paige Lauren Lessard, 21, was topped the 2021 Nationwide Elite Miss in the course of the fifth annual Nationwide Elite Miss nationwide pageant, held just lately on the The Westin Houston.
Girls from throughout the nation vied for his or her respective titles to symbolize nationally for the next yr. Throughout their reign, they are going to have the chance to stroll in New York Trend Week for designer Marc Defang, obtain money scholarships, sponsored presents and symbolize Nationwide Elite Miss throughout the nation.
Lessard, a 2018 cum laude graduate of Biddeford Excessive Faculty, is pursuing her bachelor’s diploma in enterprise administration with a spotlight in accounting and minors in style merchandising and advertising and marketing. She enjoys a wide range of neighborhood service and donates a big quantity of her time to volunteer work.
Over the subsequent yr, Lessard will additional develop her platform, Flip The Paige, an educational-based platform specializing in vocabulary improvement and controversial subjects by literacy and training. She reads dwell weekly on Flip The Paige’s Fb web page alongside different appointed ambassadors.
Together with the nationwide title, Lessard has been awarded the Gold Presidential Volunteer Service Award, Greatest Interview Award, Greatest Runway Award, and Greatest Mannequin Award. She was beforehand topped 2021 Nationwide Elite Miss Maine, 2021 USA Nationwide Miss New England, 2019 USA Nationwide Miss Nationwide Teen Function Mannequin, and 2019 USA Nationwide Miss Maine Teen.
For extra particulars on the pageant, go to nationalelitemiss.com.

BRIDGTON
Senior dwelling facility breaks floor
Woodlands Senior Dwelling, a Maine-based, family-owned-and-operated assisted dwelling and reminiscence care supplier, broke floor just lately on its latest facility. Woodlands Reminiscence Care of Bridgton, positioned at 200 North Excessive St., might be Woodlands’ tenth location and sixteenth neighborhood in Maine. Woodlands is planning a 48-bed neighborhood for people dwelling with Alzheimer’s illness and associated reminiscence impairments.
The Bridgton neighborhood might be 24,000 square-feet, make use of greater than 30 folks, and can characteristic the newest developments for reminiscence care, together with considerable pure mild, home-scaled areas for resident engagement and security programs. Woodlands Reminiscence Care of Bridgton might be Woodlands’ second location in Cumberland County, and is anticipated to incorporate on-site facilities akin to a magnificence salon, a bodily and occupational remedy heart, and a big outdoors courtyard. Like its different communities, Woodlands Reminiscence Care of Bridgton will settle for each non-public paying and MaineCare eligible people and households.
“The challenge we’re right here to rejoice right now is extra than simply an assisted dwelling facility – it’s a path to maintain our ageing family members nearer, job alternatives for our nursing college students at Lake Area Grownup Ed and it’s one other stepping stone of progress in our neighborhood,” mentioned City Supervisor Robert A. Peabody, Jr. “As lots of you already know, a tax increment financing settlement was accredited by the voters. This TIF help will assist fund infrastructure enhancements that may improve well being and security akin to sidewalk building, crosswalk alerts, intersection enhancements and wastewater enlargement. It’ll additionally fund leisure enhancements to the city corridor.”
Woodlands Senior Dwelling began in 1980 with a 39-resident boarding dwelling in Hallowell. The group has since grown to incorporate 16 communities in 10 areas with the addition of Bridgton. The ability is anticipated to open within the fall of 2022.

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